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Law and society : critical concepts in law /
"The thriving and well-established field of Law and Society (also referred to as Sociolegal Studies) has diverse methodological influences; it draws on social-scientific and arts-based methods. The approach of scholars researching and teaching in the field often crosses disciplinary borders, bu...
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London,
Routledge,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Volume I. Historical Development
- Law in books and law in action / Roscoe Pound
- Dispute resolution in contemporary Japan / Takeyoshi Kawashima
- The history of mainstream legal thought / Elizabeth Mensch
- The pull ob the policy audience / Austin Sarat and Susan Silbey
- 'Critical empiricism' in American legal studies : paradox, program of Pandora's box / David M. Trubek and John Esser
- Off to meet the wizard : beyond validity and reliability in the search for a post-empiricist sociology of law / Austin Sarat
- Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically? / Roger Cotterrell
- Blinding insights? the limits of a reflexive sociology of law / David Nelken
- Law's relationship with social science : the interdependence of theory, empirical work and social relevance in socio-legal studies / Bridget M. Hutter and Sally Lloyd-Bostock
- Law and the humanities : an uneasy relationship / Jack M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
- Interdisciplinarity and the discipline of law / Douglas W. Vick
- Rivers of law and contested terrain : a law and society approach to economic rationality / Lauren B. Edelman
- Preface : where is law? / David Delaney, Richard T. Ford and Nicholas Blomley
- Governed by law? / Nikolas Rose and Mariana Valverde
- A new agenda for the cultural study of law : taking on the technicalities / Anelise Riles
- Introduction : how to resume the task of tracing associations / Bruno Latour
- Volume II. Methodologies and themes
- Sociological analysis of the law of vagrancy / William J. Chambliss
- A classic at 25 : reflections of Galanter's 'haves' article and work it has inspired / Richard Lempert
- The emergence and transformation of disputes : naming, blaming, claiming / William L. F. Felstiner, RIchard L. Abel and Austin Sarat
- Conclusion and implications / D. McBarnet
- 'The law is all over' : power, resistance, and the legal consciousness of the welfare poor / Austin Sarat
- The economization of politics : meta-regulation as a form of nonjudicial legality / Bronwen Morgan
- From the panopticon to Disneyworld : the development of discipline / Clifford D. Shearing and Phillip C. Stenning
- Performance-based regulation and regulatory regimes : the saga of leaky buildings / Peter J. May
- Shopping in the public realm : a law of place / Atonia Layard
- The common place of law / P. Ewick and S. Silbey
- The social construction of legality / P. Ewick and S. Silbey
- Law : a map of misreading toward a postmodern conception of law / Boaventura De Sousa Santos
- 'Atrocity stories' and professional relationships / Robert Dingwall
- Postcard from the edge (of empire) / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey, Gillian Calder, Angela Cameron, Maneesha Deckha, Rebecca Johnson, Hester Lessard, Maureen Maloney, and Margot Young
- Discretion in a behavioral perspective : the case of a public housing eviction board / Richard Lempert
- Public protests, private lawsuits, and the market : the investor response to te McLibel case / Douglas W. Vick and Kevin Campbell
- Jurisdiction and scale : legal 'technicalities' as resources for theory / Mariana Valverde
- Volume III. Legal processes and professional groups within the legal field
- From street-level bureaucracies : how information and communication technology is transforming administrative discretion and constitutional control / Mark Bovens and Stavos Zouridis
- Street-level bureaucracy, social work and the (exaggerated) death of discretion / Tony Evans and John Harris - Discretion and power / Michael Adler and Stewart Asquith
- Remedial routines for the maintenance of contol in magistrates' courts / Pat Carlen
- Communicative participation / A. Duff, L. Farmer, S. Marshall and V. Tadros
- Settlements and the erosion of the public realm / David Luban
- Selective facilitation : some preliminary observations on a strategy used by divorce mediators / David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall
- The possibilities and desirability of mediator neutrality : towards an ethic of partialiity / Linda Mulcahy
- Listing concentrates the mind : the English civil court as an arena for structured negotiation / Simonn Roberts
- The importance of advocacy / J. Morison and P. Leith
- Negotiation between lawyer and client in an American divorce / William F. Felstiner and Austin Sarat
- From scaffold to law court, from criminal broadsheet and biography to newspaper and novel / J. Grossman
- Magistrates' everday work and emotional labour / Sharyn Roach and Kathy Mack
- The gender of judgments : an introduction / Regina Graycar
- Merchants of law as moral entrepreneurs : constructiong international justice from te competition for transnational business disputes / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth
- Volume IV. Areas of Study
- Regulating risk society : stignata cases, scientitic citizenship and biomedical diplomacy / Robert G. Lee and Derek Morgan
- The regulation of xenotransplantation in te United Kingdom after UKXIRA : legal and ethical issues / Laura Williamson, Marie Fox and Sheila McLean
- The human genome diversity project : the politics of patents at the intersection of race, religin, and research ethics / Bita Amani and Rosemary J. Coombe
- Fault and liability for accidents : the accident victim's perspective / S. Lloyd-Bostock
- Flexibility in long-term contractual relationships : the role of co-operation / David Campbell and Donald Harris
- Jurisdiction and scale : rent arrears, social housing, and human rights / Dave Cowan, Caroline Hunter and Hal Pawson
- The status of status : domestic partnership and the poitics of same-sex marriage / Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
- Family friendly? Rights, responsibilities and relationship recognition / Carl Stychin
- Beyond the public/private division : law, power and the family / Nikolas Rose
- Towards a new capitalism / S. Wheeler
- Te elusive spirit of the law : formalism and th struggle for legal control / Doreen McBarnet and Christopher Whelan
- From design to technique in global financial governance / A. Riles
- Rights and regulation as a framework for exploring reverse legal transfers : hegemony and counter-hegemony in the Bolivian water sector / Bronwen Morgan
- How to turn a beggar into a bus stop : law, traffic and the 'function of the place' / Nicholas Blomley
- Maturity and methodology : starting a debate about environmental law scholarship / Elizabeth Fisher, Bettina Lange, Eloise Scotford, and Cinnamon Carlarne.